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Iccola's_ cobalt-steel skin. Fastened to his shoulder there was a tiny
scanner and microphone, which would relay everything he saw and heard
back to the radar room and to Diane. She watched tensely as he went
inside the Plumie ship. Other screens relayed the image and his voice to
other places on the _Niccola_. He was gone a long time. From the
beginning, of course, there were surprises. When the Plumie escort
removed his helmet, on his own ship, the reason for the helmet's high
crest was apparent. He had a high crest of what looked remarkably like
feathers--and it was not artificial. It grew there. The reason for
conventionalized plumes on bronze survey plates was clear. It was
exactly like the reason for human features or figures as decorative
additions to the inscriptions on Space Survey marker plates. Even the
Plumie's hands had odd crestlets which stood out when he bent his
fingers. The other Plumies were no less graceful and no less colorful.
They had equally clear